Yarrow vs Tansy - What's the difference?
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As a noun yarrow is any of several pungent eurasian and north american herbs, of the genus achillea , used in traditional herbal medicine or yarrow can be (uk) the green woodpecker, picus viridis . As a proper noun tansy is .
yarrow Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), (m), from (etyl) .
Noun
(en-noun)
any of several pungent Eurasian and North American herbs, of the genus Achillea , used in traditional herbal medicine
Synonyms
* milfoil
Hyponyms
* Alps yarrow,
* Chinese yarrow,
* common yarrow, Achillea millefolium
* Egyptian yarrow,
* fernleaf yarrow,
* Ligurian yarrow,
* noble yarrow,
* Siberian yarrow,
External links
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Etymology 2
(Picus viridis)
(Picus viridis)
Noun
( en noun)
(UK) The green woodpecker, Picus viridis .
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tansy Noun
A herbaceous plant with yellow flowers, of the genus Tanacetum , especially .
* 1913 , DH Lawrence, Sons and Lovers , Penguin 2006, p. 365:
- The sunny afternoon was there, like another land. By the path grew tansy and little trees.
(uncountable, obsolete) A dish common in the seventeenth century, made of eggs, sugar, rose water, cream, and the juice of herbs (including tansy), baked with butter in a shallow dish.
- (Pepys)
Derived terms
* double tansy
* tansy mustard
See also
* pennyroyal
* savin
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